HECKER, Ill. -- An EF-1 tornado hit portions of Hecker, Illinois Saturday night. Bommarito Automotive Group SkyFOX Helicopter was above the town Monday morning. Storm damage is still visible with uprooted trees, roof torn off buildings, and homes missing walls. The fire department said 10 homes had moderate damage in Hecker, but nearly half of [...]
Bob Dylan appears to be on a Grateful Dead kick lately. As previously reported, on Wednesday, April 12, Dylan performed the Dead classic “Truckin’” at one of his concerts at the Tokyo Garden Theater.…
Best Buy Co. Inc. is cutting hundreds of jobs in stores across the country, the latest step by the electronics retailer to adjust to changing consumer habits and emphasize online sales and smaller stores.
The Wall Street Journal reported the layoffs on Friday, noting that the cuts will be focused on store "consultants" — sales-floor staff charged with advising shoppers on items such as smartphones or computers.
Those tasks will be shifted to a smaller pool of workers. Laid-off employees can…
ISPs for years have struck cozy deals with landlords effectively elbowing out competitors and allowing them to create building-by-building broadband monopolies. That stifled competition in turn results in higher costs for access to an essential utility. And while the FCC passed rules in 2007 trying to ban this, the rules were so full of loopholes […]
Three companies want to capture carbon dioxide from Midwestern ethanol plants, transport it by pipeline and store it underground. Many claim it’s essential to the industry’s survival. Environmentalists and farmers argue the pipelines are not a real solution for climate change.
Army Chief Warrant Officer Rusten Smith of St. James, Missouri, who was also killed in the Black Hawk helicopter crash. His funeral was Saturday in St. James.
A funeral for a service member and St. Louis native is today. It's for Chief Warrant Officer Zachary Esparza - who was killed in last month's crash of two Black Hawk helicopters.
They didn’t know it at the time, but Dec. 3, 2020, was the start of a nightmare for Wandrea Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman. Both were election workers in Atlanta, and that was the day Rudy Giuliani — ex-New York mayor and adviser to former President Donald Trump — testified to a state Senate […]